ONE MARK- QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS (HISTORY) WORK, LIFE AND LEISURE. 1 Mention the author of the novel Debganer Durgacharan Ray (1880)

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1 ONE MARK- QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS (HISTORY) WORK, LIFE AND LEISURE. 1 Mention the author of the novel Debganer Durgacharan Ray (1880) Martye Aagaman 2 State any two contrasting images of the city of Calcutta in the 19th century. wealth and poverty, splendour and dirt, opportunities and disappointments. (any two) 3 Define the term metropolis. A large, densely populated city of a country or state, often the capital of the region 4 Name any two early industrial cities of Britain. 5 What did Gareth Stedman Jones say about the city of London? Leeds and Manchester It was a city of clerks and shopkeepers, of small masters and skilled artisans, of a growing number of semi skilled and sweated outworkers, of soldiers and servants, of casual labourers, street sellers, and beggars. 6 Who is a Philanthropist? Someone who works for social upliftment and charity, donating time and money for the purpose. 7 Name the book that showed growing crime in The Bitter Cry of Outcast London London written by Andrew Mearns. 8 Name the two Acts that kept children out of industrial work. Compulsory Elementary Education Act in 1870, The factory acts beginning from What is a Tenement? Run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially poor section of a large city. 10 Who conducted the first social survey of low In 1887, Charles Booth, a Liverpool ship-owner, skilled London workers in the East End of London? 11 State any two reasons for increasing concern for the housing for the poor in London. Fire hazard, Health hazard, fear of social disorder ( any two) 12 What was the Temperance movement? A largely middleclass-led social reform movement which emerged in Britain and America from the Nineteenth century onwards. It identified alcoholism as the cause of the ruin of families and society. 13 What was the aim of the Temperance movement? It aimed at reducing the consumption of alcoholic drinks particularly amongst the working classes. 14 Who developed the principle of the Garden Architect and planner Ebenezer Howard City in London? 15 Who designed the garden city of New Unwin and Barry Parker Earswick. 16 When and where was the first section of the Underground in the world opened? 17 Name the author of the book Dombey and Charles Dickens (1848) On 10 January 1863 between Paddington and Farrington Street in London.

2 Son about the massive destruction in the process of construction in London. 18 What was Chartism? A movement demanding the vote for all adult males 19 What is Individualism? A theory which promotes the liberty, rights or independent action of the individual, rather than of thecommunity 20 What was the London season? Annual get together by the wealthy Britishers, for several cultural events, in the late eighteenth century. 21 What are Presidency cities? The capitals of the Bombay, Bengal and Madras Presidencies in British India 22 When did Bombay become the capital of the Bombay Presidency? In 1819, after the Maratha defeat in the Anglo- Maratha war. 23 What were Chawls? Chawls were multi-storeyed structures which had been built from at least the 1860s in the native parts of the town. 24 State the basic reason for emerging town Fears of social revolution planning in the city of London. 25 State the basic reason for emerging town Fears about the plague epidemic planning in the city of Bombay. 26 When and why was The City of Bombay Improvement Trust established? In 1898 to focus on clearing poorer homes out of the city centre. 27 What are Akharas? Traditional wrestling schools, generally located in every neighbourhood, where young people were trained to ensure both physical and moral fitness. 28 What is meant by land reclamation? The reclaiming of marshy or submerged areas or other wasteland for settlements, cultivation or other use 29 Who approved the earliest land reclamation The Bombay governor William Hornby project in Bombay to construct a sea wall? 30 How was Marine Drive of Bombay developed? 31 Which was the first movie released in Bombay? Thorough the land reclamation project by the Bombay Port Trust in by depositing the excavated earth. Harishchandra Sakharam Bhatwadekar shot a scene of a wrestling match in Bombay s Hanging Gardens and it became India s first movie in Who made the film Raja Harishchandra? Dadasaheb Phalke 33 Name any two writers associated with Hindi Ismat Chughtai and Saadat Hasan Manto cinema in the early period. 34 When was the Smoke Abatement Acts passed In 1847 and 1853 to control pollution 35 Name the first Indian city to get smoke Calcutta in 1863 nuisance legislation. 36 Who controlled the industrial smoke in The inspectors of the Bengal Smoke Nuisance Bengal? Commission

3 PRINT CULTURE AND MODERN WORLD 1 Name the earliest printing developed in Woodblock printing China. 2 How was printing done in China in the early period? By rubbing the paper on the inked surface of the woodblock. 3 Who were the scholar officials? The literate civil servants of China who were a part of a huge bureaucratic system. 4 Who brought print technology to Japan? Buddhist missionaries from China around AD Name the oldest book printed in Japan. The Buddhist Diamond Sutra 6 What was Vellum? A parchment made from the skin of animals 7 Who brought printing technology to Europe? Italian explorer Marco Polo in Who were the scribes? The workers who made manuscripts in large numbers 9 When and where was the first printing press developed? In Germany by Johann Gutenberg in the 1430s. 10 What is platen? In letterpress printing, platen is a board which is pressed onto the back of the paper to get the impression from the type. 11 Who is a compositor? The person who composes the text for printing 12 What is a Galley? Metal frame in which types are laid and the text composed 13 What is a ballad? A historical account or folk tale in verse, usually sung or recited 14 What are taverns? Places where people gathered to drink alcohol, to be served food, and to meet friends and exchange news 15 Who was Martin Luther? A religious reformer who challenged the evils of Catholic Church. 16 What was the Protestant Reformation? A sixteenth-century movement to reform the Catholic Church led by Martin Luther. 17 Printing is the ultimate gift of God and the Martin Luther greatest one. Who said these words? 18 What is inquisition? A former Roman Catholic court for identifying and punishing heretics 19 Heretical Beliefs, which do not follow the accepted teachings of the Church. 20 Satiety The state of being fulfilled much beyond the point of satisfaction 21 Seditious Action, speech or writing that is seen as opposing the government 22 When did Roman Catholic Church maintain From 1558 an Index of Prohibited Books? 23 Who was Erasmus? A Latin scholar and a Catholic reformer, who

4 criticized the excesses of Catholicism 24 What are chapbooks? A term used to describe pocketsize books that are sold by travelling pedlars called chapmen. 25 What are Biliotheque Bleue? Low-priced small books printed on poor quality paper, and bound cheap blue covers in France. 26 Who proclaimed: Tremble, therefore, tyrants Louise-Sebastien Mercier of the world! Tremble before the virtual writer 27 When and where was a children s press, devoted to literature for children alone, was set up? 28 Who spent years in compiling traditional folk tales gathered from peasants in Germany? 29 Name any two best known women writers of the early period in Europe? 30 State the contribution of Richard M. Hoe of In France in 1857 The Grimm Brothers (1812) Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, George Eliot. He had perfected the power-driven cylindrical press. Which could print 8,000 sheets per hour. New York in the print culture. 31 Who brought printing technology to India? The printing press first came to Goa with Portuguese missionaries in the mid-sixteenth century. 32 Name the two languages in which the Konkani and in Kanara languages. Portuguese missionaries printed books. 33 Who was James Augustus Hickey? He was the editor of Bengal Gazette, a weekly magazine from Name the Governor-General who persecuted Warren Hastings James Augustus Hickey. 35 Who published the first newspaper Bengal Gangadhar Bhattacharya, who was close to Gazette in India? Rammohun Roy. 36 Who published the Sambad Kaumudi from Rammohun Roy 1821? 37 Who commissioned the Samachar The Hindu orthodoxy to oppose Sambad Chandrika? Why? Kaumudi, Rammohan Roy s news paper. 38 Name any two Persian news papers published Jam-i-Jahan Nama and Shamsul Akhbar. in India. 39 Name a Gujarati newspaper. Bombay Samachar, 40 Why was the Deoband Seminary, founded in To prevent conversion of Muslims in to other 1867? religions / To propagate Islamic principles 41 When and where was the Ramcharitmanas of From Calcutta in Tulsidas, a sixteenth-century text published? 42 Name any two presses published Hindu The Naval Kishore Press at Lucknow and the religious texts only. Shri Venkateshwar Press in Bombay 43 Name the first full-length autobiography Amar Jiban written by Rashsundari Debi, published in the Bengali language. which was published in State the contribution of Tarabai Shinde and They wrote with passionate anger about the

5 Pandita Ramabai in social reforms. miserable lives of upper-caste Hindu women, especially widows in 1880s, in present-day Maharashtra 45 Who was Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein? A noted educationist and literary figure, strongly condemned men for withholding education from women 46 Who published Istri Dharm Vichar? Ram Chaddha, teach women how to be obedient wives. 47 What did the Khalsa Tract Society publish? Cheap booklets to teach women how to be obedient wives 48 What were the Battala publications? Cheap editions of religious tracts and scriptures, as well as literature that was considered obscene and scandalous, in Bengal, an entire area in central Calcutta 49 Who wrote the book Gulamgiri? Jyotiba Phule, a social reformer in Maharashtra 50 Name any two social reformers who wrote for backward classes. B.R. Ambedkar and Jyotiba Phule in Maharashtra and E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker in Madras 51 Name the author of the book Chhote Aur Kashibaba, a Kanpur millworker, (1938 ) Bade Ka Sawa'l. 52 Name the collections of poetry by Sudarshan Sacchi Kavitayan ( 1935 and 1955) Chakr. 53 Why did the British Government curtail the To prevent the spread of nationalist ideas / To freedom of press after 1857? prevent publishing any thing against the British 54 Why was the Vernacular Press Act passed in To provide the government with extensive rights to censor reports and editorials in the vernacular press. ( Or the previous answer) 55 Where did the British get the model for passing the Vernacular Press Act? 56 What were the provisions of the Vernacular Press Act? 57 Why was Balgangadhar Tilak imprisoned in 1908? From the Irish Press Laws When a report was judged as seditious, the newspaper was warned, and if the warning was ignored, the press was liable to be seized and the printing machinery confiscated. When Punjab revolutionaries were deported in 1907, Balgangadhar Tilak wrote with great sympathy about them in his Kesari. This led to his imprisonment in

Sati Child Marriage Female infanticide Untouchability. Q2. Name the uppermost caste in the social ladder that existed in ancient India.

Sati Child Marriage Female infanticide Untouchability. Q2. Name the uppermost caste in the social ladder that existed in ancient India. WOMEN CASTE AND REFORM Class VIII History Q1. Painted by a European artist who came to India, this was one of the many pictures of a religious practice, a social evil that existed in ancient India. Identify